National Historic Landmark - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is nationally significant as one of Frank Lloyd Wright's most important commissions during his long, productive, and influential career.

Built between 1956 and 1959, the museum is recognized as an icon of mid-twentieth-century modern architecture.

Being one of his last works, it represents the culmination of a lifetime of evolution of Frank Lloyd Wright's ideas about an organic architecture.

Within its building typology, the Guggenheim is one of the early examples of architecture as art for major twentieth-century museums.

It is one of a group of sixteen Wright buildings singled out in 1959 by the American Institute of Architects and the National Trust for Historic Preservation as his most important --to the nation...which ought to be preserved in their original form--.

The original building remains essentially unchanged and exhibits an unusually high degree of integrity, clearly conveying its character-defining form.

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Information courtesy of the National Park Service.

Image: Source, Public Domain.